Laboratory

Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Formal and Statistical Approaches to the Study of Inequalities in Mortality

Ugofilippo Basellini, Esther Dorothea Denecke, Ana Cristina Gómez Ugarte Valerio, Roland Rau, Emilio Zagheni, Jose Manuel Aburto (MPIDR / University of Oxford, United Kingdom); in Collaboration with Carlo Giovanni Camarda (French National Institute for Demographic Studies, Paris, France), Pavel Grigoriev (Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany), Fanny Janssen (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague, Netherlands)

We focus on the development of new formal relationships and statistical methods to investigate demographic change across countries and over time. Particular attention is paid to mortality in small populations and inequalities in mortality across socioeconomic groups.  Detailed Description

Different scenarios of lifespan equality (as measured by the Drewnowski’s index) and threshold ages under the Gompertz model

Gompertz mortality model with positive aging (ß > 0) for different levels of baseline mortality a and a fixed rate of aging ß = 0.1. In this framework, lifespan equality (D) and the threshold age (aD) increase as the level of mortality (a) decreases. © Aburto et al. (2022) © MPIDR

Publications

Bonetti, M.; Basellini, U.; Nigri, A.:

The Average Uneven Mortality index: building on the 'e-dagger' measure of lifespan inequality

Demographic Research 50:44, 1281–1300. (2024)    

Gómez Ugarte Valerio, A. C.; Basellini, U.; Camarda, C. G.; Janssen, F.; Zagheni, E.:

Reassessing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality via distributional similarities

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-007. (2024)    

Riffe, T.; Permanyer, I.; Tursun-Zade, R.; Muszynska-Spielauer, M.:

Calculating the joint distribution of years lived in good and poor health

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-013. (2024)    

Riffe, T.; Villavicencio, F.; Gonzalez-Forero, M.:

Sensitivity and decomposition of multistate healthy life expectancy

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-014. (2024)    

Denecke, E. D.; Grigoriev, P.; Rau, R.:

Evaluation of small-area estimation methods for mortality schedules

arXiv e-prints 2302.01693. unpublished. (2023)    

Gómez Ugarte Valerio, A. C.; Garcia-Guerrero, V. M.:

Inequality crossroads of mortality: socioeconomic disparities in life expectancy and life span in Mexico between 1990 and 2015

Population Research and Policy Review 42:57, 1–22. (2023)    

Aburto, J. M.; Basellini, U.; Baudisch, A.; Villavicencio, F.:

Drewnowski’s index to measure lifespan variation: revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table

Theoretical Population Biology 148, 1–10. (2022)    

Nigri, A.; Aburto, J. M.; Basellini, U.; Bonetti, M.:

Evaluation of age-specific causes of death in the context of the Italian longevity transition

Scientific Reports 12:22624, 1–10. (2022)    

Aburto, J. M.; Villavicencio, F.; Basellini, U.; Kjærgaard, S.; Vaupel, J. W.:

Dynamics of life expectancy and life span equality

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117:10, 5250–5259. (2020)